Heel of boots and shoes



Mar. 3, 1925.

. v. PHILLIPS HEEL OF BOOTS AND SHOES F iled Oc t. 14, 192

vviolet Phillips rm/Mfrs Patented Mar. 3, 1925.

VIQLET I!JI-IILJJIIPS, 0F NORWICH, ENGLAND.

HEEL or BOOTS AND SHOES.

Application filed October 14, 1924. Seri-alNo. 743,564.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VlLOLE'l PHILLIPS, a British subject, residing at 25Camberley Road, Norwich, inthe county of Norfolk, England, have inventedcertain new and usefulImprovements in Heels of Boots and Shoes, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in or relating to the heelsof boots and shoes, and it consists in an improved method of and meansfor securing a toppiece or tread-piece on a Louis or like wood heel sothat not only can such toppiece be very readily detached and replaced byanother but the securing means serve to strengthen or reinforce the heelto prevent it breaking across at its narrowest part, as heels of thiskind very often do in use.

In accordance with my invention two or more holes are bored verticallyin the body of the heel, and a vertical groove is formed in the breastof the heel; a rigid metal plate is secured upon the inner face of thetoppiece; pins which are adapted to fit slidably in the aforesaidvertical holes are rigidly mounted in the said plate; and the said plateis formed with a lug which projects upwards fro-m its front edge and isadapted to fit in the aforesaid vertical groove. The contour of the saidplate may correspond to that of the toppiece, or a smaller plate may beemployed. In the latter case the plate may be partially surrounded by aring of aluminium or other metal of approximately horseshoe shape, or itmay be fitted in a shallow recess formed in the inner face of thetoppiece so that its face is flush with the said face of the toppiece.The aforesaid pins and lug serve to strengthen the heel besides ensuringstability and accurate fitting of the toppiece on the heel, and thetoppiece is firmly secured in position on the heel by inserting alocking pin into a hole formed transversely in the lug and a hole formedin alignment therewith in the body of the heel. If desired, two verticallugs may be formed on the plate and two grooves in the heel breast, thesaid grooves being a short distance apart; and a staple may be employedinstead of pins as the locking member.

I have illustrated my invention in the accompanying drawing, in whichFig. 1 is a plan View of a woo heel ready to receive the detachabletoppiece shown and 3 in plan and elevation relarger scale, a locking pinand a tool for.

extracting same, hereinafter referred to.

Referring to the drawing: A is a wood heel in the body of which holes aare bored vertically to receive metal pins Z2, two of which are mountedrigidly in a steel plate C which may correspond in contour to thecontour of the toppiece but is shown as 'T- shaped. The said plate issecured upon the inner face of the toppiece and is formed with a lug 0by bending upwards at right angles the end portion of the stem of the T;and it is shown as let into an aluminium plate (Z the contour of whichcorresponds to that of the toppiece. Two of the four pins 1) shown inthe drawing pass through the plate a? into the toppiece B. The lug afits into a vertical groove 0 formed inthe breast of the heel, and thetoppiece is secured in position upon the heel by engaging a lockin pin fin a hole formed in the said lug and in a hole 9 formed in alignmenttherewith in the body of the heel.

As already indicated, a staple may be employedv in place of a lockingpin, in which event two holes are formed in the lug and correspondingholes, which may diverge or converge, are formed in the heel to receivethe legs of the staple.

I may employ a locking pin formed as shown in Fig. 5 with ascrew-threaded bore h, and provide a simple tool j, shown in Fig. 6, forextracting the said pin when it is necessary to remove the toppiece, butan ordinary pin or a screw may be employed, the head of such pin orscrew being preferably countersunk in the lug; and, in order tocounteract any tendency of the said pin to enlarge the hole in the heelin wear, I may secure a strip of steel 71 in the bottom of the groove 6in which the lug c fits, a hole being bored in the said strip toregister with the hole in the lug.

\Vhat I claim is z 1. A method of securing a detachable toppiece on awood heel of the Louis type and at the same time reinforcing the heel toprevent it breaking across at its narrowest part, consisting in forminga vertical groove in the breast of the heel and a plurality ofverticalholes in the body of the heel, securing upon the inner face of thetoppiece a rigid-metal plate formed With a lug which projects upwardsfrom the front edge of the plate and is adapted to fit in the aforesaidvertical groove in the heel breast, mounting rigidly in the said metalplate pins adapted to fit slidably in the aforesaid vertical holes inthe body of the heel, and inserting a locking pin into a hole formedtransversely in the aforesaid lug and a hole formed in alignmenttherewith in the body of the heel.

2. The combination with a treadpiece for a WOOdllGBl, of a rigid metal.plate secured upon the inner face ofthe treadpiece, a plurality of pinsrigidly mounted in the Said plate and adapted to fit slidably invertical holes formed in the body of the heel, and a lug formed on thesaid plate at its front edge, adapted to fit in a vertical groove inthen-breast of the heel and in which VIOLET PHILLIPS.

